PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 31, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Aberdeen Total Dynamic Dividend Fund (NYSE: AOD) (the "Fund"), held its 2018 annual meeting of shareholders (the "Annual Meeting") on October 31, 2018. At the Annual Meeting, shareholders of the Fund voted (i) to re-elect John Sievwright as a Class I Trustee to the Board of Trustees and (ii) against a shareholder proposal that the Board take the necessary steps to declassify the Board of  Trustees of the Fund so that all Trustees are elected on an annual basis.

As of the record date, July 20, 2018, there were 107,593,338 outstanding shares of the Fund. 91.74% of the outstanding shares were present at the Annual Meeting in person or by proxy, representing a quorum.

A description of the proposals and number of shares voted at the Annual Meeting are as follows:

Proposal 1: To elect one Class I Trustee to the Board of Trustees.

Trustees whose term of office continued beyond the Annual Meeting are as follows: P. Gerald Malone, Nancy Yao Maasbach and Martin Gilbert.

Proposal 2: A shareholder proposal that the Board take the necessary steps to declassify the Board of  Trustees of the Fund so that all Trustees are elected on an annual basis. 

Because a majority of the outstanding voting shares of the Fund on the record date entitled to vote on the matter, did not vote "For" Proposal 2, the Proposal was not approved. In addition, a majority of the votes cast voted against the Proposal. Broker non-votes equaling 40,527,156 shares (37.67% of outstanding shares) were received on Proposal 2 but were not treated as votes cast and are therefore not reflected in the chart above.

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